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...speed and ability to hit the high notes. The title cut resembles vintage U2, with moody atmospherics in the verses and a succession of triumphant choruses. The song sees Leo in a slower context than he’s accustomed; even when not merging punk speed and Elvis Costello-like songwriting, Leo finds a way to accustom his voice to the sound...
...Howard painted it from the start as a choice between the tried and the untested, and by the end of the campaign's first week, polls showed the Coalition gaining ground. Still, it wasn't a clear run for the government. Treasurer Peter Costello was forced yet again to deny interest in the leadership, and a group of senior economists publicly chided the government with a claim that interest rates were likely to rise after the poll whatever the result. It was in the second week that the race really fired, with the first big policy punches - Labor announcing...
...every time Labor championed health and education reform, the government retorted with its economic record. Into the final weeks of the campaign, whether it was Peter Costello announcing a GST windfall to state governments, advertisements depicting Latham as an "L-plate" financial manager who had left disaster in his wake after a 1990s stint as mayor of Sydney's Liverpool council, or Labor's timetable for submitting its policies for Treasury costing, economic stability was the government's mantra. At its campaign launch in Brisbane's stately City Hall on Sept. 26, before a crowd waving Australian flags, Howard unveiled...
...Boyne. Latham's other key message that day was simple: "I'm ready to lead, and he's ready to leave." Keen to highlight Howard's refusal to commit to a full term, Labor gambled that the electorate would be disturbed by the chance of a handover to Treasurer Costello. But more pressing was their own leadership question. At the same time that Labor had to convince Australians enjoying some of the best economic conditions in memory that they'd be better off under a Labor government, they also had to convince them that Latham, with only 10 months...
...does the Howard-Costello partnership measure up on these points? Is it looking beyond the three-year election cycle? Although some may grumble about the 10% goods and services tax introduced in 2000, it was a necessary adjustment and modernization of the tax system that required bureaucratic toil and a willingness to take political risks, but not great courage or imagination. Reforming wage bargaining and introducing user-pays for education and health across the board have been done gradually. A fairly benign, mainly symbolic, deal such as the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. is a metaphor for the Howard...